The wood pellet industry is fueling environmental racism in the U.S. South. on.nrdc.org/33biepy
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Wood pellets, a purportedly renewable alternative to coal, are being manufactured across the U.S. South in mills that are emitting thousands of tons of particulate matter, carbon monoxide, smog, & volatile organic compounds per year. 2/8 on.nrdc.org/3l2MSa
The location of these mills is no coincidence. A 2018 study found that all wood pellet mills in North Carolina and South Carolina are located in low income communities of color typically overburdened by toxic industry. 3/8 on.nrdc.org/39i4fm1
From Northampton County, North Carolina, to Alabama's Black Belt, wood pellet manufacturers target communities of color because they believe they will be able to more easily push aside local opposition. 4/8
The production of these wood pellets that pollute predominately Black and low-income communities in the U.S. South. are then shipped overseas to be burned as "renewable" fuel in the UK. 5/8
Activist @KatherineEgland remarks on the similarities of the wood pellet industry with other extractive, racist legacies in the South. "If you look at the map of the wood pellet trade states and the former cotton trade states, they are the same." 6/8 on.nrdc.org/3l2MSaM
"The UK ignored the human rights abuses of the cotton trade, with slavery, now they are imperiling the descendants of that same population with the wood pellets. [The U.S. South] also happens to be the most climate vulnerable region in the nation." — @KatherineEgland. 7/8
You can help stop the policy that justifies this racist industry. Now there’s a chance to let EU officials know that burning wood for fuel is an environmental disaster that is fueling environmental racism in the U.S. South. 8/8 on.nrdc.org/3l1ku99
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